Yeah he was a comedy genius who died way to early. Had the honour of meeting him and ade after Bottom weapons trade y fronts tour. A really funny and nice guy. Greatly missed
Quennie (Queen Elizabeth) is such a funny but dark character. Always spices her conversations with the threat of beheading. Rik Mayall's character, Flashheart, was mostly ad-libbed and the rest of the cast didn't know what to expact so were very surprised by his over-dramatic entrance.
Queen Elizabeth is played by the brilliant Miranda Richardson (basically a straight film and theatre actress) who, like many British straight actors and actresses can turn their hands to comedy. Her portrayal of Queenie as a maniacal, spoilt child was just perfect. She also pops up in Series 3 & Series 4 (as different characters)
Rik Mayall was an absolute legend. Highly recommend you watch Bottom the series, then the outtakes and then the 5 live shows which are absolute comedy gold!
17:30 - I can remember a history lesson at school where someone gave an answer and when the teacher asked "how did you know that? " he replied "It was on Blackadder! "
Rik Mayall was my comedy hero growing up. His appearance in this episode was quite possibly the best scene in all the 4 series of Blackadder, his entrance alone warrants this. Sorely missed, never forgotten. A true national treasure.
Bravo! So glad you have finally got to watching full episodes of Blackadder. Can’t wait to watch your reaction to one of my favourite shows. It gets better and better. 👏👏👏
This is a riff on Twelfth Night where the female protagonist dresses as a man and both a Count and a Lady fall for her. And then her twin brother turns up. Back in the day all female characters were played by boys. So you had a boy playing a girl pretending to be a boy being pursued by a man and another boy pretending to be a woman.
Glad you enjoyed this guys. I watched it when it aired all those years ago and rewatch it regularly. My son’s history teacher had the kids watch Blackadder Goes Forth as part of their class. When you get there, you’ll understand why. Happy New Year to you both ❤
Miriam Margoyles appears in this series too, aswell as a Chistmas special. Ironically she also appears in one of the funnier episodes of the first series.
15:26 _Kiss Me, Kate_ is a 1948 musical by Cole Porter. The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's _The Taming of the Shrew._
Queen Elizabeth was Far and away the funniest character in the Blackadder series, and the character "Bob" is a recurring theme, and made all the funnier simply by the way Rowan Atkinson says "Bob"
In my school we literally did watch Blackadder in history lessons! Most of my friends group are guys so they always refer to me as Bob even now, to the point they forget my real name and strangers look at me oddly in the street when they hear someone call "my" name lol.
You guys should also check out Black Books when you get a change. Totally different production and writers but similar humour and dialogue. The main chatacter Bernard has an assistant called Manny. His insults remind me alot of Blackadder and Baldrick; "he looks like a horse in a man costume!"
So great to see this!! Can't wait to see your reaction to season 3 and especially season 4! Hands down one of the finest British comedies ever made . . . And one that never got tired. Each season was better than the last until it ended with one of the most brilliantly funny and heartbreaking episodes of any comedy out there.
This was released when I was at high school, and literally EVERYONE began quoting ‘Blackadderisms’ at school. In fact my whole family were at it too…. Ace comedy 👍🏻👍🏻
Behold the dread pirate Rik Mayall, the Stealer of Scenes! He vamped so hard that you could see the other actors struggle to notice their own cues. But seriously, everything Mayall was in was worth watching. He was a genius at the whole performance of comedy.
Lord Flashheart was one of my childhood heroes. Definitely a good call to start with season 2 you would be disappointed watching the first one. Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry 8th and Anne Boleyn which would probably make her a bit crazy
We watched 2 episodes of Blackadder in our history lessons at school: The Rotten Borough episode from season 3, which is about elections in that era. The final ever episode of Blackadder from season 4, Going Over The Top, which is about WW1.
Rowan Atkinson has a slight stutter, especially with words beginning with B, so the writers knew this and purposely used the name BOB because of how Rowan pronounced his B’s🍻🎉
The character of Kate/Bob, played by Gabrielle Glaister, reappears in an episode of another Ben Elton sitcom about Shakespeare called Upstart Crow (2016). She appears as Justice Robert, but removes her beard to show her true self. Great in-joke for those who remember Blackadder.
Patricia Farnham/Mini Kievs actress (can't remember her name) who plays Bob was in Corrie not that long ago as a doppleganger of Jane Haselgrove (who played Reece Dinsdale's sister Alison in 'Threads').
The Wise Woman. One of my fave cameos in the whole Blackadder Saga. "First, she is.........a _woman!"_ "Kill _everybody_ in the whole _WORLD!"_ BTW, there's nowt wrong with Series 1. It has a slightly different "feel" to it, but, is very funny. I believe they brought in Ben Elton to write alongside Richard Curtis for the other 3 Series!
So glad you guys are doing these...and defo best starting with 2nd series...every episode right to end of 4 is amazing. Not sure they top IT crowd work outing though...but there are some classics along the way. Now, Baldrick...this is called 'adding'....😂
IMO ‘the work outing’ is one of the best episodes of British Comedy ever (and I bet at least 70% of the U.K. population have never even seen it)…certainly in the top 20. BUT, the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth is one of those times in TV history where most people to this day vividly remember watching it for the first time. Hard to believe now that BBC Comedy once could be so impactful.
17:50 What did happen was that history teachers in the English-speaking world and America used the fourth Blackadder series to teach about the First World War.
If you liked flashheart(rik mayall) he had a show called bottom. him and his friend did live perfomrances that often went off script. Its defo worth the watch
Rik Mayall (Flasheart) is a true British legend. You need to check out the Young Ones. Not only does he star in it, he wrote it with Ben Elton, who also wrote this! Apparently Rik only agreed to do it if he got the biggest laugh!
This was a kind of satire of the Renaissance era, not just the time and the events but also the drama. The whole situation of Blackadder falling in love with Kate disguised as "Bob" is a play on the work of Shakespeare (because you can't have a Shakespearian comedy without a girl disguising herself as a boy, the same way you can't have a Shakespearian tragedy with just one murder: it simply isn't done).
Welcome to Rik Mayall (flasheart), one of the funniest men ever. If you want more of him, then reacting to the show Bottom would go down well with a British audience.
Black adders lines are one of the best examples of British sarcastic humour and quick wit, "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence," wrote Oscar Wilde but they often miss the intelligence part out when quoting this
The guy from House (Hugh Laurie) does appear briefly in this series. But he has major roles in series 3 and 4 and he's brilliant in both. Each series jumps about 200 years forward in time. With each Blackadder and Baldrick being the descendents of the originals from series 1. That genetic link is why they look the same through all the series. Series 1 is a bit of a mess and a little different from the next three. The writers new they had a good idea with one but hadn't nailed it. They reworked the concept in two and jumped forward in time so they could change elements of the characters. In one, Blackadder is odious and not really meant to be likeable. He's an antihero. In the others they made him sharp, witty, ahead of the game and more of a roguish hero. I like series one, but it's not the easiest of watches.
What all that Bob stuff was about! Rowan had a stammer and had trouble saying words starting with a B so they deliberately named characters with a B Queen Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII, so the Tudors
I watched series one when it first came out and it was fantastic. Just because the next series were better made and financed doesn't make series one unwatchable. I called all my students 'Bob', emphasising the first 'B' until I knew their names. I told them it was my way of saying 'I can't remember your first name' and just correct me. A brilliant show, and it started with series one!
@@martinbobfrankI'm not saying it's unwatchable. Like you say, the entire show started with the first series and clearly it has its merits. I'm just not a huge fan of it
@@theonetheonlyjoey I told them all where the BOB came from, and some were called Robert and said nothing when called Bob! It also looked like I knew all their names when OFSTED or being audited people where in.
You guys should also react to ‘Garth Mahrenghis Darkplace’ it’s a comedy about a really badly shot and acted 80s hospital starring Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade. If not that, Toast of London is incredible too
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Flasheart was played by the brilliant Rik Mayall, British comedy legend and greatly missed.
Yes, I agree, Rik Mayall was a legend and was taken from us too early.
Yeah he was a comedy genius who died way to early. Had the honour of meeting him and ade after Bottom weapons trade y fronts tour. A really funny and nice guy. Greatly missed
Bloody absolute legend.bless Pete ✊.
Blackadder is brilliant. (Not series 1). The late great Rik Mayall was a genius
Bottom, guesthouse paradiso, the young ones but my all time favourite has to be drop dead Fred! R.I.P Rik, your hometown misses you ❤
the world got alot darker when rik mayall passed. an absolute legend and missed everyday. they will never be anyone else like him. what a guy
Quennie (Queen Elizabeth) is such a funny but dark character. Always spices her conversations with the threat of beheading. Rik Mayall's character, Flashheart, was mostly ad-libbed and the rest of the cast didn't know what to expact so were very surprised by his over-dramatic entrance.
I think I remember them being interviewed and Rik just told them he was going to steal the scene. And then BAM!
That's what i always loved about Rik Mayall he was always just playing parts of himself with the volume dialed up Lovably bonkers.
Now you've experienced Rik Mayall you have to queue up 'Bottom' for the future.
Queen Elizabeth is played by the brilliant Miranda Richardson (basically a straight film and theatre actress) who, like many British straight actors and actresses can turn their hands to comedy. Her portrayal of Queenie as a maniacal, spoilt child was just perfect. She also pops up in Series 3 & Series 4 (as different characters)
Rik Mayall was an absolute legend. Highly recommend you watch Bottom the series, then the outtakes and then the 5 live shows which are absolute comedy gold!
The world was a worse place when they decided to cut him as Peeves from the first Harry Potter film
Don't forget The Young Ones and Drop Dead Fred.
@@TheGrimmCommoner absolutely! If they do Young Ones and Bottom they should do Filthy Rich and Catflap too!
Flashheart's descendent appears in the 4th series and is just as hilarious.......comedy at its peak!
17:30 - I can remember a history lesson at school where someone gave an answer and when the teacher asked "how did you know that? " he replied "It was on Blackadder! "
Hey lads👍just to let you know this is not to be taken as a documentary of Elizebethan England 🤣nice one fellas, enjoy the ride✌️🍻
Flasheart appears in all the future series and is fabulous. Watch out for Miriam Margoyles in this series! Hugh Laurie appears in Series 3
Hugh Laurie is in the finale of Season 2 as well
@@chrispalmer7893 last 2 episodes, playing completely different characters.
@@darthdmc Ah, yes, I forgot about him being in Beer…
Flashheart's not in the third series.
Strap in. This is the real deal.
Rik Mayall was my comedy hero growing up. His appearance in this episode was quite possibly the best scene in all the 4 series of Blackadder, his entrance alone warrants this. Sorely missed, never forgotten. A true national treasure.
Welcome to Blackadder boys, strap yourselves in because it gets better the more you watch culminating in the awesome series 4.
Greatest sitcom ever made. Happy New Year boys!🍺🍺🥃🥃
Bravo! So glad you have finally got to watching full episodes of Blackadder. Can’t wait to watch your reaction to one of my favourite shows. It gets better and better. 👏👏👏
This is a riff on Twelfth Night where the female protagonist dresses as a man and both a Count and a Lady fall for her. And then her twin brother turns up. Back in the day all female characters were played by boys. So you had a boy playing a girl pretending to be a boy being pursued by a man and another boy pretending to be a woman.
RDJ would be perfect for the play.
Miranda Richardson was spectacular as Elisabeth the first she made this series as the whimsical spoiled little girl with absolute power.
Blackadder 2 is by far my favourite series
remember the black adder in the first world war when they want to be pilots? that's flash (Rik Mayall)
Glad you enjoyed this guys. I watched it when it aired all those years ago and rewatch it regularly. My son’s history teacher had the kids watch Blackadder Goes Forth as part of their class. When you get there, you’ll understand why. Happy New Year to you both ❤
I've seen BGF used in schools too
I remember watching blackadder goes forth last episode in school
season 1 is hilarious, people need to stop dissing it
Yes, but if you aren't familiar with Shakespeare you really notice the jokes that go over your head. Blackadder 2 & 3 are more subtle.
So excited to see you react to this. An absolute classic. Thanks for sharing it to UA-cam guys!! Happy new year, hope it's your best yet ❤😄
Well done hope you enjoy . You will love Baldrick
You now have Rik Mayall in your lives, lads, life will always be great- woof!
Greetings from the UK. My history teacher showed us series 4 of blackadder as it was set during ww1
That’s almost as bad as my Latin teacher showing us “up Pompeii” 😂
So you learned that the war started cos a guy called Archie Duke shot an ostrich cos he was hungry?
Miriam Margoyles appears in this series too, aswell as a Chistmas special. Ironically she also appears in one of the funnier episodes of the first series.
It's an odd to.Shakespeare comedies, girls being boy. You should find David Mitchell in Upstart Crow
15:26 _Kiss Me, Kate_ is a 1948 musical by Cole Porter. The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's _The Taming of the Shrew._
Ah the joy of going to school the day after this aired the first time and being called.... Bob. 🙄😂
Miranda Richardson's take on Queen Elizabeth is genius and manic!
She took the fact that Elizabeth was the child Queen. ❤❤
Season 2 is where they found their voice. It’s all gold from here on.
Queen Elizabeth was Far and away the funniest character in the Blackadder series, and the character "Bob" is a recurring theme, and made all the funnier simply by the way Rowan Atkinson says "Bob"
Here's something funny
Mrs miggins was my sister's nickname from my dad when we were kids as apparently acted like her when she's in the mood
I admire these guys these two American champs, trying to understand Black Adder ,makes me smile
One of my favourite episodes. It so funny the way he says BOB
Rowan has a speech impediment, he stutters.
Love this episode ❤️ I recently played Kate in an amateur production of Blackadder 😄 was such good fun!
I called my first car, "Bernard" after Nursy's real name.
In my school we literally did watch Blackadder in history lessons!
Most of my friends group are guys so they always refer to me as Bob even now, to the point they forget my real name and strangers look at me oddly in the street when they hear someone call "my" name lol.
You guys should also check out Black Books when you get a change. Totally different production and writers but similar humour and dialogue.
The main chatacter Bernard has an assistant called Manny. His insults remind me alot of Blackadder and Baldrick; "he looks like a horse in a man costume!"
It’s nice knowing you’re watching this.Blackadder was so funny.
Your right you got to know your history but that’s what makes it entertaining
Finally, some appreciation for the closing song!!! Happy New Year, guys!
So great to see this!! Can't wait to see your reaction to season 3 and especially season 4!
Hands down one of the finest British comedies ever made . . . And one that never got tired. Each season was better than the last until it ended with one of the most brilliantly funny and heartbreaking episodes of any comedy out there.
Yes! So glad you've jumped down this rabbit hole, looking forward to watching these series with you guys. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This was released when I was at high school, and literally EVERYONE began quoting ‘Blackadderisms’ at school. In fact my whole family were at it too…. Ace comedy 👍🏻👍🏻
Behold the dread pirate Rik Mayall, the Stealer of Scenes! He vamped so hard that you could see the other actors struggle to notice their own cues.
But seriously, everything Mayall was in was worth watching. He was a genius at the whole performance of comedy.
Lord Flashheart was one of my childhood heroes. Definitely a good call to start with season 2 you would be disappointed watching the first one. Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry 8th and Anne Boleyn which would probably make her a bit crazy
Although season 1 had Brian Blessed, which is reason enough to watch it.
Chiswick! Fresh horses!
We watched 2 episodes of Blackadder in our history lessons at school:
The Rotten Borough episode from season 3, which is about elections in that era. The final ever episode of Blackadder from season 4, Going Over The Top, which is about WW1.
No actor can say the name "Bob" like Rowan Atkinson.
Please don't sleep on Season 1.
Looking forward to more. We’re in for a ride. You’re going to enjoy blackadder as he moves through the ages.
Rowan Atkinson has a slight stutter, especially with words beginning with B, so the writers knew this and purposely used the name BOB because of how Rowan pronounced his B’s🍻🎉
Never knew that
@@frozengamer3030 yer , I watch the behind the scenes documentary, years ago . Richard Curtis and Ben Elton couldn’t help themselves 😂
@@stevestibbons1789David Lloyd couldn't? Are you sure about that? Who is David Lloyd?
@@scottandrewbrass1931 true , who’s the bloke I’m thinking of, him who did love actually?
Glad you got your refresher course in Elizabethan history. 😂
Yes, this series teaches pretty much the essentials of the Tudor period: civilization, cruelty, courtiers, and a spoiled despot.
The character of Kate/Bob, played by Gabrielle Glaister, reappears in an episode of another Ben Elton sitcom about Shakespeare called Upstart Crow (2016). She appears as Justice Robert, but removes her beard to show her true self. Great in-joke for those who remember Blackadder.
You must do Series 1 as there are some great episodes in it.
Patricia Farnham/Mini Kievs actress (can't remember her name) who plays Bob was in Corrie not that long ago as a doppleganger of Jane Haselgrove (who played Reece Dinsdale's sister Alison in 'Threads').
You mean Gabrielle Glaister?
@@AdrianColley That's the one - I couldn't remember her name. I still call her 'Mini Kievs' as she did a Mini Kievs advert.
I look forward to revisiting each season of this with you guys, can't wait.
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It's weird to see such a familiar show flipped horizontally!! :D
The Wise Woman. One of my fave cameos in the whole Blackadder Saga.
"First, she is.........a _woman!"_ "Kill _everybody_ in the whole _WORLD!"_
BTW, there's nowt wrong with Series 1. It has a slightly different "feel" to it, but, is very funny.
I believe they brought in Ben Elton to write alongside Richard Curtis for the other 3 Series!
You made the right choice following the consensus lads. 👍
There's a series long running gag behind the end credits with Edmund and the minstrel too
So glad you guys are doing these...and defo best starting with 2nd series...every episode right to end of 4 is amazing. Not sure they top IT crowd work outing though...but there are some classics along the way. Now, Baldrick...this is called 'adding'....😂
IMO ‘the work outing’ is one of the best episodes of British Comedy ever (and I bet at least 70% of the U.K. population have never even seen it)…certainly in the top 20.
BUT, the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth is one of those times in TV history where most people to this day vividly remember watching it for the first time.
Hard to believe now that BBC Comedy once could be so impactful.
Lads you must start with series 1 and watch all 4 series once you start you will never look back!
17:50 What did happen was that history teachers in the English-speaking world and America used the fourth Blackadder series to teach about the First World War.
The fourth (last series) set in WW1, is perhaps my favourite.
Fantastic stuff. What a great choice.
Nice one back to front Fellas❤️❤️
I would highly recommend you guys check out the 80s brit sitcom called The Young Ones.
If you liked flashheart(rik mayall) he had a show called bottom. him and his friend did live perfomrances that often went off script. Its defo worth the watch
i like all seaons and, without spoilers, this whole series has one of THE best endings i ve ever seen.
Apparently the cast had no idea Rik Mayall (Flash heart) was about to unleash his 'talent' on the scene. Welcome to the beast that is Black
Good idea skipping season 1. Seasons 2 and 4 are the best imo, but 3 is good as well
So strange seeing you guys sat the wrong way round lol
Flash by heart. Flash by nature
"And contradiction in term as it is" 😂
Rik Mayall is probably one of the best British comedians of all time! 😀
Great choice chaps. Comedy perfection.👌👏
You guys aren't familiar with Rik Mayall? That is something you must rectify, because he was brilliant!
A great way to learn real history too
I'm in the UK and my history teacher had is watch a lot of Blackadder. Especially this and the final season
I thought 3 was brilliant too
Rik Mayall (Flasheart) is a true British legend. You need to check out the Young Ones. Not only does he star in it, he wrote it with Ben Elton, who also wrote this! Apparently Rik only agreed to do it if he got the biggest laugh!
This was a kind of satire of the Renaissance era, not just the time and the events but also the drama. The whole situation of Blackadder falling in love with Kate disguised as "Bob" is a play on the work of Shakespeare (because you can't have a Shakespearian comedy without a girl disguising herself as a boy, the same way you can't have a Shakespearian tragedy with just one murder: it simply isn't done).
(In my view) Blackadder is the funniest show of all time. 😎
Welcome to Rik Mayall (flasheart), one of the funniest men ever. If you want more of him, then reacting to the show Bottom would go down well with a British audience.
Black adders lines are one of the best examples of British sarcastic humour and quick wit, "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence," wrote Oscar Wilde but they often miss the intelligence part out when quoting this
Many historians have said Miranda Richardsons QE1 is actually a pretty accurate portrayal of her character 😂
Amazing series and rik Mayall as flasheart always steals the show when he appears - awesome
What ? All that other time he appears in it?😂
@@scottandrewbrass1931 he appears 3 times in the series and also in the special. So the 4 times he appears, he’s the best on screen in each scene
Yes! Love me a bit of Blackadder, think my favourite seasons are 4, then 2, then 3, lastly 1. Anyone agree, or am I alone in this ranking?
I love series 2 but I really love series 1 too. It makes me sad it doesn’t get a lot of love.
It is good - but what people really like is the character of Blackadder, which is different in Series 1
The guy from House (Hugh Laurie) does appear briefly in this series. But he has major roles in series 3 and 4 and he's brilliant in both.
Each series jumps about 200 years forward in time. With each Blackadder and Baldrick being the descendents of the originals from series 1. That genetic link is why they look the same through all the series.
Series 1 is a bit of a mess and a little different from the next three. The writers new they had a good idea with one but hadn't nailed it. They reworked the concept in two and jumped forward in time so they could change elements of the characters. In one, Blackadder is odious and not really meant to be likeable. He's an antihero. In the others they made him sharp, witty, ahead of the game and more of a roguish hero.
I like series one, but it's not the easiest of watches.
What all that Bob stuff was about!
Rowan had a stammer and had trouble saying words starting with a B so they deliberately named characters with a B
Queen Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII, so the Tudors
Wasn't the state of Virginia named after Elizabeth the first
Rik Mayall was just king of Comedy, can’t believe he has been dead nearly 10 years already.
Flashheart played by the brilliant and sadly-missed legend that is Rik Mayall.
Agree with the decision to skip Series 1, great choice of shows!
I watched series one when it first came out and it was fantastic. Just because the next series were better made and financed doesn't make series one unwatchable. I called all my students 'Bob', emphasising the first 'B' until I knew their names. I told them it was my way of saying 'I can't remember your first name' and just correct me. A brilliant show, and it started with series one!
@@martinbobfrankI'm not saying it's unwatchable. Like you say, the entire show started with the first series and clearly it has its merits. I'm just not a huge fan of it
@@martinbobfrankand that's brilliant, did many of your students get the reference?
@@theonetheonlyjoey I told them all where the BOB came from, and some were called Robert and said nothing when called Bob! It also looked like I knew all their names when OFSTED or being audited people where in.
Season 2 is the best one.
Rik Mayall was Lord Flasheart, you should watch his own shows Young ones, Bottom etc
Lord Flashheart is based on the anti hero of the Flashheart novels.
You guys should also react to ‘Garth Mahrenghis Darkplace’ it’s a comedy about a really badly shot and acted 80s hospital starring Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade. If not that, Toast of London is incredible too
I don't know if you reacted to man down yet, starring your fav Greg Davis but Rik mayall played his dad until he died
Brillant Episode and Series